HQ Crafting Help!

[Gemina]

And lets stop pretending RnG is anything but a throttle mechanic. I level through crafting, using NQ mats getting quality as high as I can. I have experience with the 'RnG' in this game over thousands of crafts. I watch it trend according to my experience bar over and over. I watch it adjust based on my rotation.

Nothing I offered is intended to intimidate new players. With the proper gear and rotations you can avoid RnG completely. I've also used hasty spam, rotations and even using NQ mats with a 14% completion I get 10 out of 99 HQ. Some prefer to spam, some prefer precision. The precision option is there, it just means a different process.

You can never avoid RNG if a success rate is anything lower than 100%. If you're using CP touches instead of Hasty Touch, I understand what you are saying, but when it comes to recipes around your level it is very difficult to get quality to 100% using only CP touches.

A misconception I have realized while roaming about is what it means when you see something has a certain success rate. What needs to be understood is this rate is an individual case. It's the reason why if you buy a lotto ticket with 1/10 odds, buying 10 tickets doesn't guarantee you will win. You don't increase your odds to 100% by buying 10 tickets. Each individual ticket has a 10% chance of being a winner. RNG works very much the same way because well, it is the same thing.

When you see '80%' success rate, it doesn't mean 80% of your overall attempts are going to be successful. It means that this particular attempt has a 80% chance that it will succeed, and if it doesn't, your attempt landed in the 20% field and failed. This can happen EVERY attempt, and if you get an unlucky streak, it is just that: An unlucky streak.

[Ksenia]

You can never avoid RNG if a success rate is anything lower than 100%. If you're using CP touches instead of Hasty Touch, I understand what you are saying, but when it comes to recipes around your level it is very difficult to get quality to 100% using only CP touches.

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This is why I craft exclusively in HQ parts. You can CP craft and get 100% at level, even 2 levels above level with all HQ. It falls on it face with forced NQ from desynth and exclusive, vendor mats but to the core of my comments on this thread, you can craft HQ and void RnG. Mostly it's going to take far more prep work and you won't really save time but if RnG spam grinds your gears like it does mine, it's an option. It's also why everything post ARR is so unappealing to me. You are forced to RnG spam. You can't get HQ unless you eat and breathe FF14 for weeks on end. Even then, stuff like Demi III's simply can't be obtained HQ.